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Each branch of the Warriors of Mercy had a Chief Commander who was responsible for overseeing and directing it and ensuring that the force executed the strategic decisions of the Supreme Commander. The Standing Committee of the Supreme Council had divisions dedicated to the support and furtherance of the military effort. The Intelligence Division acted as the military intelligence of the force, the Logistics and Support Division was responsible for ensuring that the force and its materiel were moved, replenished and assisted where it was needed. The Materiel and Resources Division was responsible for procuring weapons, uniforms and other resources that were needed. The Facilities and Infrastructure Division was responsible for making sure that roads, rail networks, military bases etc., were provided and maintained to ease the movement of forces and people and goods. The Research and Development Division was responsible for developing new tools and methods to improve military objectives.
The Manpower and Discipline was responsible for recruiting officers and maintaining military labour camps. The Carriers of Mercy had approximately 7 million active combatants and a total of 22 million people served as part of the Warriors of Mercy at least once in their lives. A large part of the Warriors of Mercy was a infantry and mechanised infantry force that relied on guerilla tactics rather than conventional warfare. The force used everything at its disposal including civilian equipment to further its goals such as converting pick-up trucks into mechanised infantry assault vehicles and avoiding conventional battles.
This freed it from many of the restrictions that conventional militaries faced and allowed it to be innovative in the face of superior firepower and technology. However, the casualties that they suffered were enormous. The Battle of Ashmariya in Iganar had been a crippling blow for the Warriors of Mercy because the Packilvanian Communist Party used a nuclear weapon that wiped out 200,000 of their members in one go either from injuries sustained as a result of the blast or exposure to radiation. So greatly was the organisation dwarfed by the might of the state that analysts such as Umberto Fuolini argues that the Warriors of Mercy only won because of the popular revolts against the government that made many places ungovernable and amenable to the Warriors' presence and the horror of the nuclear strike on Ashmariya.
Fuolini and other such as Richard Carlyle, Sasha Vladimirovich Peskayevski and Li Tian suggest that the Packilvanian Communist Party only surrendered because it was facing an internal civil war and was horrified by its own war atrocities and its inability to administer large parts of the country. They argue that if the Warriors of Mercy and the Packilvanian Communist Party had gone on a one-to-one head on conflict, the Warriors would have lost resoundingly.
Military strategist Fudan Khuneyd, and Juan Carlos de Sousa Caldera suggest that asymmetric conflicts are by nature not designed to defeat their superior opponents through overwhelming force but through creating conditions that make it impossible for it to function properly. As such modern conflicts, especially civil war, are characterized by unconventional warfare approaches such as guerilla warfare, civil disobedience and resistance, urban warfare, information warfare etc. Thus, are by nature designed to achieve victory by attrition (prolonged wearing down of the opponent's will to fight) and creating conditions conducive for an ending by dialogue.
This, they are argue explains how the Carriers of Mercy were able to defeat the Packilvanian Community Party and yet how deeply they had to compromise. The fact that the Warriors of Mercy had to be disbanded and the Carriers of Mercy dissolved despite the fact that they were the nominal victors of the conflict demonstrates that the Warriors of Mercy had not won the war solely because of their military capabilities but instead through taking advantage of the dysfunction of Packilvanian Communist Party and its own voluntary surrender. After the war, the Warriors of Mercy was absorbed into the newly formed [[Packilvanian Armed Forces]].
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